Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The title of my film, "Virus X" is very clearly shown through titles on my opening sequence.

As you can see, it has a plain, black background, with the word "Virus", in white, in front of a green "X". 

The fonts that I used in my opening sequence as titles, e.g. the Director's name, the actor's names, etc, were consistent throughout the title sequence.

The font that I decided to use is 'OCR A Extended'. I decided to use this font as it fits the genre and the sub-genre very well. It fits nicely in the middle of the screen as white text on a black background.

I had two main location/settings in my opening sequence; Charles' house and Bellevue Park.

The first image is of  Charles' house, and the second is of Bellevue Park.

The costumes/props that I have decided to use are;

"Virus X"

Mobile Phone

Briefcase

Brown shoulder bag

Costume for Camilla Dawson: Black trousers, black and white stripy top, long black cardigan, black high heel shoes and tied up hair.

Costume for Charles Dixon: Jeans, checked shirt, jumper, and gelled spiky hair.


The lighting throughout the entire opening sequence is very light and bright.

The characterisation of Charles' character is very shifty and criminal like. In the opening sequence of the film, he's made to come across to the audience as confusing.

Charles is checking that Camilla hasn't been followed, as he doesn't want anything to ruin his plans.

I have used many different camera angles in my film;

These are only 4 of the many different camera angles that I have used in my film.

I have mainly used the fade transition in my film, but I have sometimes used just a simple cut.

This is a simple cut from one camera angle to another.

This is showing a fade from a title to some footage.

The opening sequence of my crime film, with a sub-genre of mystery is portrayed, I believe, very well through all of the screen shots that I have captured above. It is obvious what kind of film it is just from the first 2 minutes of the film.